Sentences with phrase «unabated coal use»

In other words, limiting sea level rise, extreme weather events, heat waves, and other climate impacts requires staying within world's «carbon budget» — which doesn't include unabated coal use.

It's time to start moving away from unabated coal use — and start transitioning to a low - carbon economy.

Not exact matches

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

But they believe that the UK «is bucking these positive trends» and they call on the government to phase out unabated use of coal by 2023 to «improve air quality, protect the health of our population, and reclaim the UK's leadership position in tackling climate change.»

If I understand MARodger and the the Myhrvold - Caldiera paper correctly, approximately 1 TW of coal is used globally to generate electricity, which if continued to be used unabated, will be responsible for approximately 0.325 deg C in 100 years.

He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of coal cars heading to power plants to the death trains of the Holocaust (because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).

-- To accelerate the transition to a competitive, energy efficient low carbon economy and to end the use of unabated coal for power generation.